The young star’s take on I Dreamed a Dream has already become something of a sensation (and looks to have assured her an Oscar). Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen make something genuinely creepy of the crooked innkeepers Madame and Monsieur Thénardier. Eddie Redmayne is superb as the revolutionary student who falls for that weedy orphan. It has, for the most part, paid off.Īmanda Seyfried can do nothing with the older Cosette, but that was always the weakest major role. Given how few of the performers have a musical theatre background (the charismatic if somewhat lightweight Jackman being a notable exception), this constitutes something of a gamble.

Hooper’s much-touted Big Idea was to have the actors to sing live on set. Pixel-heavy recreations of vast shipyards and idealised Parisian cityscapes alternate with musical numbers that – in the opening act, particularly – rarely escape the soundstage. Sure enough, Les Misérables features few directorial innovations or visual flourishes. Whatever the merits of The King’s Speech, nobody could mistake it for the work of an experimental film-maker. Events come to a head during the June Uprising of 1832. Has Marius found love at last?”) But there were enough big tunes to carry indulgent audiences through the unforgiving running time.Īmong that last set, Valjean encounters Fantine (Anne Hathaway), a young woman thrown into prostitution, and arranges for the care of her young daughter Cosette. To state the maxim in more subjective language, if you hated the show, you’ll probably hate the movie.įortunately, Les Misérables is probably the best of the flashy, sung-through event musicals that conquered the world during the 1980s. It is, however, just about impossible to create a decent movie from a hopeless musical. Once in a while, after a great deal of rewriting, a film-maker will fashion a fine movie from an unsatisfactory play. Many, many good films – a few masterpieces, even – have been adapted from bad books. Starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen 12A cert, general release, 158 minĪs bombastic musicals go, Les Miz delivers a fair share of drama, writes

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